Hardly "liberal" since the austerity policies enforced by the EU have being destroying social safety nets and the public sector all over the continent. Merkel and Sarkozy are from the conservative parties of their own countries and their quislings in Athens and Rome are ex-bankers.

The EU is like the Republican party in the US -- a tool of the financial parasite class.

No need for knives, though. It's clearly on the verge of collapsing from its own overreach and incompetence.